Vortexed Quotes & Sayings

I told you had to be some kind of karmic opposite to the words I love you. — Joe Hill

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures. — Orhan Pamuk

Did you talk to Terry Wilcox?"
"Yes."
"How'd that go?"
I had lifted my hand up to shield my eyes from the sun so I could look at him. During my questioning, Lee was looking beyond me to the alley and into the backyards of my neighbors. When he answered, his eyes shifted to me.
"I gave him your excuses for missing dinner on Wednesday."
"What were those?"
"You'd be with me and I'd be fucking your brains out."
My vagina went into spasm and my knees went week.
"How'd he take that?" I asked, trying to pretend I wasn't about to collapse.
"He wasn't pleased. — Kristen Ashley

The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they.
(from, Coriolanus) — William Shakespeare

Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that's a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason. — Tammara Webber

I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come. — Billy Crystal

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of. — Orson Scott Card

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process. — Dan Barber

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps. — Tony Benn

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. — Wallis Simpson

I don't really shop a lot. I order things online. When I travel, I'll get some pieces along the way. — Lizzo

I read a book, am vortexed in with no escape; my face contorts, eyelids frost, breath comes short, body longs, heart stop-starts. Who's to say too much won't kill me? Who's to say I care? — Chila Woychik

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. — Julian Schnabel

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever. — Adrienne Rich

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,
they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment. — Frances Power Cobbe